Luis Arraez drove in two insurance runs with an eighth-inning single. While we're here, check this out.Jorge Polanco hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Minnesota Twins rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Detroit Tigers 9-4 Saturday.Īlex Kirilloff also homered for Minnesota to put the Twins on the board in the sixth. The series starts on Sunday and it'll be in Houston for Games 1 and 2, as the Astros won the AL West due to the head-to-head tiebreaker. The Rangers swept the Orioles in the ALDS and now the Astros are headed to join them in an all-Texas ALCS. This is something that they can build on heading toward next season. Expect a lot of hype around his bat heading to next season, where he'll hopefully stay healthy for the full six months.Īnd while, the Twins season is over, they don't have to hear about the 0-18 drought anymore, thanks to having swept the Blue Jays in two games in the Wild Card Series. 360 clip in the Twins' six playoff games while slugging. He hit a home run, as mentioned above, in the first inning in this one. The Twins are headed home, but not for lack of trying from rookie sensation Royce Lewis. Lewis' first postseason was a huge success If Abreu gets hot, holy smokes that's a stout 1-5.

The Astros already have one of the strongest 1-4 lineups in baseball with Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman, Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker starting things off. He seems to be heating up just now, and that's a scary thought for the rest of the league. He had a down year at the plate in 2023, though he still drove in 90. He's driven home at least 100 runs in six of his 10 seasons - and one of the times he didn't was 2020, when he was MVP in the 60-game season. This comes after Abreu went 2 for 5 with two homers and five RBI in Game 3.Ībreu has been a premier run producer throughout his time in the majors. The 36-year-old Michael Brantley hit a solo shot. The Astros evened things up in the second and it came from a somewhat unlikely source. The Twins jumped on the board in the first inning with Lewis' solo homer. The Astros elected to go with Urquidy and it paid off. The Astros had already used Hunter Brown twice in relief in the series, which meant the decision was between Urquidy and J.P. Urquidy had a 5.29 ERA in the regular season and only appeared in three innings during the World Series run last year. The top three were obvious in co-aces Justin Verlander and Framber Valdez followed by playoff stalwart Cristian Javier. There were plenty of question marks about this spot in the Astros' rotation. Those were two of the three hits he allowed in his 5 2/3 innings. That was just about it with Astros starter José Urquidy controlling the offense aside from those two blasts. The Twins got a first-inning home run from Royce Lewis and a sixth-inning homer from Edouard Julien. Here are four things to know from Houston's Game 4 win.

They'll now face their in-state foe in the 2023 ALCS as the Rangers knocked out the top-seeded Orioles from the bracket on Tuesday. In their previous six ALCS, they won four AL pennants and then went on to win two World Series, including last year's. The last time there was an ALCS without the Astros was 2016. This will now be their seventh consecutive ALCS. The Astros bullpen didn't even allow a hit in its 3 1/3 innings to close the game down.Įven if not considering the Astros at present a dynasty, they are absolutely an American League dynasty. The Astros got home runs from Michael Brantley and José Abreu while starter Jose Urquidy allowed only three hits in his 5 2/3 innings of work. Houston defeated the Minnesota Twins, 3-2, in Game 4 of the ALDS on Tuesday to win the series 3-1. The Houston Astros are back in the ALCS for the seventh year in a row.

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